| Summary: | A report on essential drug shortages at hospitals. As pharmaceutical companies focus on profitable medicines, many fear the medicines they require will stop being produced at the rate they're needed. Includes interviews with Dr. Mitch Goldstein, neonatologist at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in California; Anthony Gobin, head of the pharmacy at Loma Linda Hospital; Sarah Carney and Cyndi Valenta, whose children were both treated at Loma Linda Hospital for leukemia; Dr. Cindy Schwartz, Milwaukee pediatric oncologist and a committee chair of the Children's Oncology Group; Ross Day, former director of Vizient; and Bill Simmons, a former high-ranking generic drug executive.
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